POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
This results from the passive effects of an elevated left atrial pressure due to mitral valve disease or prolonged left ventricular failure. If it persists, pulmonary artery pressure gradually increases above that explained by passive transmission of the elevated outflow pressure. Initially this increase is due to reflex vasoconstriction, but eventually vascular remodeling occurs. This additional contribution to pulmonary hypertension can be quantified by the increasing gradient between the pulmonary diastolic pressure and the left atrial pressure.
- Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Disorders
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- Other Clearly Extrinsic Causes of Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- HYPERKINETIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
- Miscellaneous
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- TREATMENT
- Sarcoidosis
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -